英语修辞Rhetoricofsounds

1、Phonetic Devices/Figures of Sound 1. Alliteration头韵头韵 2. Assonance 元韵元韵 3. Consonance辅韵辅韵 4. Homeoteleuton (Greek, meaning similarity in endings)尾韵尾韵 5. Onomatopoeia 拟声拟声Phonetic Devices/Figures of Sound（Detailed） 1. Onomatopoeia 拟声拟声 2. Alliteration头韵头韵 3. Assonance 元韵元韵 4. Consonance辅韵辅韵 5. Homeot

2、eleuton (Greek, meaning similarity in endings)尾韵尾韵 6. Rhyme押韵押韵1. Alliteration/head rhyme/front rhyme (see p148) Alliteration is a rhetorical device extremely popular with poets and writers. In this device the same consonant sound is repeated in the initial position of two or more words. Examples 1)

3、 safe and sound 2) Pride and Prejudice 3) Sense and Sensibility 4) personally and pleasantlyExamples 5) She sells seashells on the seashore. (tongue-twister) 6)Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper. (tongue-twister) 7) frothing and fragrantExamples from the Advanced English, Text Book 1 1) I s

4、ee also the dull, drilled, docile, brutish masses of the hun soldiery 2)fighting for his hearth and home 3).Let us learn the lessons already taught by such cruel experience. 4) The cast of characters set before him in his new profession was rich and varied. 5) for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brai

5、ned sloths stayed at home 6) It was that population that gave to California a name for getting up astounding enterprises and rushing them through with a magnificent dash and daring and a recklessness of cost or consequences.2. Assonance 元韵元韵 Assonance is the “echoing” or “resemblance” of vowel sound

6、s in the stressed syllables of a sequence of words, as in a hot copper sky children just let loose from school.2. Assonance 元韵元韵 Poets of all ages have used this device effectively to convey various sensory impressions. 2. Assonance 元韵元韵 1) Thou still unravished bride of quietness, Thou foster child

7、 of silence and slow time. (Keats: “Ode on a Grecian Urn”) More to see p. 152-1543. Homeoteleuton (Greek, meaning similarity in endings)尾韵尾韵 In this device, words, phrases or clauses in close succession end with the same sounding suffix or syllable. 1) To Bertie, Jeeves is as incomprehensible as he

8、is indispensible. (The New Yorker, May 22, 1989)4. Onomatopoeia拟声/声喻法 This device makes use of imitation of sounds for effect. These sounds may be those made by a person, animal or thing, or associated with some action or movement.4. Onomatopoeia拟声/声喻法 For example, moo, meow, bow-wow, hiss, roar and baa are respectively imitative of the cries or calls of cows, cats, dogs, snakes, lions and sheep. 4. Onomatopoeia拟声/声喻法 It is a device much used in poetry and prose to add vividness or vitality to description